17 Dividend Stocks With Most Recent Dividend Growth

Stocks with dividend hikes from last week originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. 17 stocks announced to raise their dividends last week. It’s good to see that dividend growth still works despite the fact the total number of stocks is still very weak.

United Technologies is the biggest dividend riser from the last week. The company announced to boost its future dividends by 10 percent. Other big stocks are Gladstone Investment and Johnson Outdoors.

You can find a detailed list about all dividend growth stocks from last week in the attached list. There is also a small sheet with price ratios which makes it easier to compare the results.

Most of the long-term dividend growers are high quality stocks with expensive price ratios. Only five shares have a current forward P/E of less than 15. 

Next Week's Top Yielding Ex-Dividend Shares

The best yielding and biggest ex-dividend stocks researched by ”long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. Dividend Investors should have a quiet overview of stocks with upcoming ex dividend dates.

The ex dividend date is the final date on which the new stock buyer couldn’t receive the next dividend. If you like to receive the dividend, you need to buy the stock before the ex dividend date. I made a little screen of the best yielding stocks with a higher capitalization that have their ex date on the next trading week.

In total, 37 stocks go ex dividend - of which 8 yield more than 3 percent. Here is a full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date within the upcoming week.

Here is the sheet of the best yielding, higher capitalized ex-dividend stocks:

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Senior Housing Properties Trust	SNH	4.55B	31.82	1.62	6.26	6.45%
Vale S.A.	VALE	79.93B	19.15	1.14	1.71	4.84%
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store	CBRL	2.51B	21.56	5.19	0.95	2.84%
Foot Locker, Inc.	FL	4.91B	12.13	2.03	0.78	2.43%
Colgate-Palmolive Co.	CL	57.34B	25.71	37.47	3.32	2.21%
Franco-Nevada Corporation	FNV	6.02B	78.85	1.96	14.29	1.76%
Hormel Foods Corp.	HRL	11.40B	23.17	3.74	1.33	1.58%
CVS Caremark Corporation	CVS	73.09B	17.62	1.88	0.59	1.51%
NetApp, Inc.	NTAP	14.59B	29.07	3.63	2.28	1.44%
Pall Corp.	PLL	8.66B	26.77	4.77	3.27	1.43%
Graco Inc.	GGG	4.65B	24.94	8.31	4.37	1.32%
Thor Industries Inc.	THO	3.05B	20.13	3.42	0.94	1.25%
Apache Corp.	APA	34.48B	13.96	1.09	2.02	0.91%
HB Fuller Co.	FUL	2.28B	23.59	2.72	1.13	0.87%
PerkinElmer Inc.	PKI	4.16B	59.14	2.24	1.95	0.75%
Acuity Brands, Inc.	AYI	4.15B	33.04	4.17	1.99	0.53%
Lennar Corp.	LEN	6.64B	17.59	1.85	1.24	0.46%
EOG Resources, Inc.	EOG	48.33B	48.77	3.36	3.67	0.42%

Consumer Dividend Stocks With Highest Float Short Ratios

Consumer goods dividend stocks with highest float short ratios originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Consumer goods stocks are often the most preferred source for dividend growth investors. I don’t know why but the consumer sector has the largest amount of stocks with a solid dividend history. They are less volatile and work with good margins. For sure, the growth perspectives are not a good as for technology stocks and the debt is also everything else than slim but they are still attractive.

Today I like to close my monthly article serial about dividend stocks with the highest float short ratio. Here are the links from the serial:

· 20 Basic Material Dividend Stocks With Highest Float Short Ratio

· 20 Industrials With Highest Bets On A Falling Stock Price

· 20 Most Hated Dividend Stocks From The Services Sector

· 20 Highly Shorted Financial Dividend Stocks

· 8 Utility Dividend Stocks With The Highest Float Short Ratio

· 20 Technology Dividend Stocks, Most Shorted By Investors

· 13 Highly Shorted Healthcare Dividend Stocks

Today I like to look at the consumer goods stocks and excluded stocks with a market capitalization below 300 million as well as stocks without dividends.

My top 20 stocks have a float short ratio between 8.21 percent and 28.92 percent. The highest short selling stock is Pitney Bowes. The company is followed by the auto parts seller Monro Muffler Brake.

Despite the huge number of pessimistic investors, analysts recommended 13 of the results.

20 Cheapest Consumer Dividend Stocks

Consumer dividend stocks with cheap price ratios originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". 

I love consumer dividend stocks. Nearly 60 percent of my own stock allocation have a relationship to the sector. For sure they also had a very low performance compared to other stocks but they give me stability and trust to invest bigger amounts of money into the stock markt.

A few years before, I purchased consumer stocks for an average yield of 3.5 percent. Today the sector has a yield of 2.78 percent despite the fact that most of the consumer stocks raised year over year their dividends. Consumer stocks getting more and more expensive and the only core reason for this development is the expansive monetary policy.

Today I like to go forward with my monthly screens of the cheapest dividend stocks measured by the lowest forward P/E. The 20 cheapest stocks with a higher market capitalization are valuated between 7.8 and 12.5. Only one High-Yield is part of the results. Nearly all companies, 17 in total, are currently recommended to buy.

The Most Recommended Consumer Goods Stocks | 20 Dividend Stocks With Highest Buy Rating

Most recommended consumer goods dividend stocks originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Today I like to screen one of my favorite investment sectors, the consumer goods sector. I want to show you who are the best, higher yielding dividend stocks with a buy or better rating.

Stocks from the sector have a total market capitalization of USD 197.4 trillion. The average P/E is 21.58 and the dividend yield amounts to 3.28 percent. The highest yielding industries are still business equipments and cigarettes.

Cigarettes and tobacco companies have the highest share in my private portfolio. They represent around 25 percent of my assets and they are also one of my biggest dividend contributors over the year.

However, 396 stocks are available for trading with a relation to the consumer sector. 185 of them pay dividends and 123 have a current buy or better rating. Below is a small list of the 20 higher capitalized companies (over USD 2 billion) with the highest buy rating. Most of the results are low yielding but the expected growth rates for the next years look fantastic. Dare a glance and let me know in the comment area which of the stocks you like most.

The Biggest Ex-Dividend Stocks On September 20, 2012

The Best And Biggest Ex-Dividend Stocks Researched By Dividend Yield - Stock, Capital, Investment. Dividend Investors should have a quiet overview of stocks with upcoming ex-dividend dates. The ex-dividend date is the final date on which the new stock buyer couldn’t receive the next dividend. If you like to receive the dividend, you need to buy the stock before the ex-dividend date. I made a little screen of the best yielding stocks with a higher capitalization that have their ex-dividend date on the next trading day.

A full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks on September 20, 2012. In total, 9 stocks and preferred shares go ex-dividend - of which 5 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.91%.

Here is the sheet of the best yielding, large capitalized Ex-Dividend stocks:

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Two Harbors Investment	TWO	3.30 b	10.10	1.19	9.94	12.18%
Ituran Location & Control	ITRN	274.25 m	10.43	3.24	1.78	8.22%
Gazit-Globe	GZT	1.70 b	7.57	0.84	0.90	3.87%
New Jersey Resources	NJR	1.93 b	20.61	2.30	0.82	3.45%
General Electric	GE	234.83 b	17.94	1.96	1.62	3.06%
Omnicom Group	OMC	14.28 b	15.77	4.37	1.01	2.23%
R.G. Barry Corporation	DFZ	164.91 m	11.52	2.22	1.06	2.17%
Hubbell	HUB-B	4.72 b	16.25	3.05	1.57	2.06%
Thor Industries	THO	1.87 b	16.83	2.30	0.63	2.04%

Ex-Dividend Date Reminder For March 30, 2012

Here is a current overview of best yielding stocks with a market capitalization over USD 300 million that have their ex-dividend date on the next trading day. If your broker settles your trade today, you will receive the next dividend. A full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks March 30, 2012. In total, 7 stocks and preferred shares go ex-dividend of which 4 yielding above 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.78 percent.